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DOI https://doi.org/10.15407/

The date the article was first submitted to the publication 3.01.2026

The date the article was accepted for publication after review 19.01.2026

The date of publication (publication)

HE PUT EVERYTHING ON THE ALTAR OF SERVICE TO THE CAUSE To the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Borys Voznytsky

FILEVYCH Natalia

  • ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-2959-603
  • Head of the Patyk Museum Department,
  • 4, Mateyka Str., 79007, Lviv, Ukraine,
  • Chairman of the Board of the NGO «Center for the Rescue of
  • Ukrainian Cultural Heritage»,
  • Chairman of the NGO «Nagornykh Fund»,
  • Contacts: e-mail: taljaf@gmail.com

Abstract. The purpose of the article is to present memories of Borys Voznytsky, Hero of Ukraine, Laureate of the Taras Shevchenko State Prize, Honored Worker of Culture of Ukraine and Poland, who had Presidential Awards, Orders of Merit, was an Honorary Citizen of five cities, Honorary Doctor of Sciences, Academician.

Corresponding Member of the Academy of Arts of Ukraine (2006). Awarded the Gold Medal of the Academy of Arts of Ukraine (2006).

These were not just awards and distinctions — this is a small part of what the Motherland could thank for that titanically devoted, selfless work of Borys Voznytsky and his team. The work to save and revive tens of thousands of works of national art, monuments of architecture. Covering issues of such topics is an integral part of research into the folk culture of Ukrainians.

The territorial boundaries of the material are logically determined by the starting points of Borys Voznytskyi’s activities  — Lviv and the entire Lviv region.

The author of the article is a long-time employee of the Lviv Art Gallery, based on numerous interviews with Borys Voznytskyi and own observations during many years of cooperation with Borys Hryhorovych, she published several scientific publications dedicated to the history of the museum and the figure of Voznytskyi.

The relevance of the topic is due to the 100th anniversary of the birth of Borys Voznytskyi.

The methodological basis of the study was the methods of field ethnographic research, in particular interviewing the respondent, biographical and analytical methods, with a combination of historical reconstruction.

Keywords: Borys Voznytskyi, Lviv Art Gallery, museums, expeditions, castles, art treasures, destroyed monuments, Lviv, Lviv region, Ukraine.

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  • Filevych, Natalka. (Ed.). (2006). Boris Voznytsky. Self-portrait against the background of time. Lviv: Center of Europe [in Ukrainian].
  • Filevych, Natalka. (Ed.). (2011). Lviv Art Gallery. The collective and its director. Lviv: Center of Europe [in Ukrainian].
  • Filevych, Natalka. (Ed.). (2013). Boris Voznytsky, how we remember him. Lviv: Center of Europe [in Ukrainian].
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  • Voznytskyi, B. (2005). Mykola Pototskyi, the headman of Kaniv and his artists, the architect Bernard Meretin and the carpenter Ioan Georgy Pinzel. Lviv: Center of Europe [in Ukrainian].
  • The city center will be closed due to Voznitsky’s funeral in Lviv. Retrieved from: https://zaxid.net/news/https://zaxid.net/cherez_pohoron_voznitskogo_u_lvovi_perekriyut_tsentr_mista_n1255861
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